Word: comics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing is really purely funny in this movie about two would-be comedians struggling for recognition in a Manhattan night club. Even their jokes provoke more thought than laughter. Steven (Tom Hanks) is a medical school dropout whose comic routines are pointed reminiscences of his own failures as a student. Lilah (Sally Field), a New Jersey housewife with a yen for humor, fails miserably at first at the business of being funny. She resorts to time-worn Polish jokes--you know the type: "My husband's Polish. He gave me something long and hard when we got married...a last...
...that's the case, then the survey can do more than just provide a little comic relief...
...making rude noises on the periphery -- attacking the soul when it is restlessly idling between gigs. Bird, for all his troubles, is a wonderfully attractive figure, delighting in the lilt of big words and fine phrases, turning the memory of the moment he found his style into a throwaway comic anecdote. When he steals a saxophone from a rival who has gone over to rock, he tootles a few notes on it and says contemptuously, "I wanted to see if it could play more than one note at a time...
...nose was smashed and broken--blue and swollen to almost comic proportions. His face was thoroughly bloodied. Although he could not have been older than 12, he held back tears as he sat, waiting, in the hospital emergency room...
...Parador often goes for the big, broad laughs--and gets them. The movie is peppered with good gags and competent cameos by such old pros as Sammy Davis Jr., Charo and Jonathan Winters. Best of all are the exaggerated comic performances of the three principals, especially Dreyfuss...